Mark 14:3
And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat relaxing, a woman came having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure spikenard, very valuable. And having broken the alabaster cruse, she poured it on his head.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2but they said, Not during the feast, lest there will be an uproar of the people.
4And some were indignant within themselves, saying, Why has this waste of the ointment happened?
Cross References
Song of Solomon 4:13Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,
Matthew 21:17And having left them behind, he went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.
Matthew 26:6Now when Jesus happened to be in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
John 11:2And Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Matthew Henry on Mark 14:2-12
Christ Anointed at Bethany; Judas Engages to Betray Christ. 1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. 2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.… Read the whole commentary →